Chapter 3
Allison and Joey went into the kitchen and ate breakfast with the rest of the family. Allison found it extremely awkward because Jesse and Danny felt as though they needed to ask her questions the entire time. She knew they were avoiding asking her why she had slept there last night. She could also tell they thought she had slept with Joey, and that made it even more awkward.
"Well, thanks for the breakfast," Allison said, "but I have to go, or I'll be late for work." With that she left very abruptly.
"Uh, girls," Danny said, "why don't you go upstairs and play in your rooms for a while?" He turned to Joey when they were gone. "Joey, what was that? Why was our babysitter here last night?
"Yeah," Jesse said, "We both know you like her and everything, but did you have to bring her back here and…"
Joey cut him off. "Hold on, I can explain this. And let me first just say, if you think anything happened last night, you're wrong." Jesse and Danny looked at him skeptically. Joey continued. "I went to drop her off and I saw she didn't go into the homeless shelter. She was going to sleep on the ground in an alleyway last night! I couldn't just leave her there!"
There was a pause from the other two.
"Really?" Danny said thinking of his three girls and how horrible that would be if that ever happened to them.
"Yes," Joey said sadly. "We need to do something about it. We can't just let her sleep on the streets."
"What are we supposed to do?" Jesse asked harshly. "Buy her an apartment?"
"She could live here."
Danny and Jesse laughed at him.
"So you two can get together?" Jesse said. "I don't think so."
"We don't even have enough room for all of us," Danny said. "All of the rooms are full. How are we going to fit another person in here?"
"She could have the alcove, where I used to live," Joey suggested.
Jesse rolled his eyes and Danny thought about it.
"That could work," Danny said.
"What?" Jesse asked opposed to the suggestion of her living there.
"Come on, Jess," Danny said. "What if when DJ and Stephanie move out of the house, they end up sleeping on the streets?" Jesse furrowed his brow, thinking. "She makes me think a lot about how my girls are going to grow up and I wouldn't want that to happen to them."
"Yeah, but you wouldn't throw your kids out into the street when they're 18."
"Yeah, I wouldn't, but because of that we need to help her. She has no family."
"Jess, don't be like this," Joey said. "You like her too. You even said that the first day you met. She'll fit in with us just fine, you said."
"Yeah, but…," Jesse started, but didn't finish. Joey did have a point. He thought Allison was fun to be with and way more amusing than Joey. He gave in. "Oh, all right."